<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I wasn't sure who would be voting, so I wanted to send this to the whole list. Ignore if you don't have a policy program and won't be voting.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I want to make a pitch for immigration — not because the topic is that great (it's fine, but I don't love it) but because poverty debates will be extremely similar to this year's education debates.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">I loved the previous social services topic and think it's really important for people to learn about these issues, but having a poverty topic next year will create the same debates (inequality advantage vs. states CP and weak DA) that we're having this year, so it doesn't achieve the same benefits as it would otherwise, and choosing poverty sacrifices an opportunity to learn something different. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'd absolutely support a poverty/social services topic in the future.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Just my $.02.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Maggie</div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Mario Herrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rioherrera@gmail.com" target="_blank">rioherrera@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Please follow the link to the GFCA ballot for the final round of voting on next year's policy debate topic. Each school has one vote. Vote for your choice of topic. Please keep in mind that the GFCA vote will be calculated with other votes from around the country to determine the resolution choice for the 2018-19 school year. Therefore, it is important that schools with active policy programs now and who hope to have them in the future have their voices heard in this GFCA vote. <div><br></div><div>Here is the link: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/3j74C5D7DoviwyWe2" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>3j74C5D7DoviwyWe2</a><br><div><br></div><div>Voting closes at noon on Friday, December 15. Let me know if you have any questions. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mario Herrera</div></font></span></div></div>
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